The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


curriculum of the Louisville high school They
are typewriting, stenography and cooking.
The Prohihitionists have carried every county
in Florida so far, but one, in which an election
has been held under the new local option law.
ABRAHAM SoUTHER, a colored man of Old Fort,
n. c., has in his possession documents which
show that he is 107 years old. He chewS and
! smokes, and is devout Methodist.
\ POOR WOMAN 10 Gratiot county, Mich, who
had been scrimping along on two acres of land
for many years, went up to Ithica the other day,
drew 50 900 back pension, and inside of an hon
blew in $500 for dry goods.
\ FAMILY that recently removed from Lee N.
H., took along cat that soon disappeared. 1t
has since been found at the old homestead in
Lee, but how it got back is 4 mystery, as it
must have travelled fifty miles without a guide.
WINNIPEG is an exception to the saying that
there is no Sabbath west of Chicago. The
streets are empty and the churches full In
| deed there is said to be church accommoda-
ton for 1000 in population of $4,000, and it is
all utilized.
AN intelligent farmer who thought that the
banks were not safe lives in Elba, MINI. He
sold farm for $1,000 and hid the money in his
house. and in few days, while his wife was at
the spring getting a pail of water the money
was stolen and the house set on fire and burned.
A WEALTHY ocToGENARIAN of Cincinnati, who
married young Kentucky beauty, few years
| ago, is now suing for divorce on the ground Of
willful absence. He asserts that trouble prompt
| ly began on the wedding trip because he re-
| fused to transfer 800 600 worth of property to
| his bride. They separated, and she refused
| to live with him unless he made the transfer.
HONEY will be high this year The three lead
ing honey producing States, Illinois, Wisconsin
| and Michigan, have absolutely no honey at all,
| and in MANY parts of these States the bees are
n
| year California sent honey to the East by the
| car load, this year they have scarcely enough
| Tor nome consumption.
A CONE of FURNISHED tin, 90 inches in height
and IL in diameter, has been placed on the sum-
nit of Mount Katahdin by the Bangor (Me)
| Appalachian Club, in order to note the distance
| from which the peak can be seen. 1t is expect
| ed that the cone will reflect the suns rays far
and wide over Maine and enable observers to
determine the question.
In Palestine. Tex, last Wednesday night Mr.
John Rampy and neighbor climbed big tree
to watch for wolves. About midnight the
wolves appeared. The neighbor blazed away at
| them and turned just in time to see Mr.. Rampy
| drop to the ground, dying man. 1t is sup
| posed that the trigger of his shotgun must have
| caught on twig Anyway he had shot himself
I fatally.
FoRTYFIvE YEARS AGO there wasn't postage
stamp in the United States, says the Buffalo
| Courier; but in the last twelve months the peo-
| pie of this country have individually and sever
ally put their tongues out 1868 81 900 times to
| moiSten the postage stamps for the billions of
| letters and millions of newspapers, periodicals,
| and parcels that are carried and delivered by
| the government.
| A CITIZEN of Providence, r. L. makes many a
dollar by catching bats, which he sells to tax
idermists for so cents apiece. He fastens fish
| hook to the end of a long horsewhip, and on the
! hook faStaOS a Sfa ling
| near an electric light in the evening, he waves
| the whip until one of the many bats which are
hunting the insects that fly around the light
| grabs the miller and then he yanks him in.
| ONE of the members of the Harrisburg City
Grays is Private Task, who for twenty five years
| has been a Sunday school scholar, and in all
| that time has never been absent from his class
| Recently, when in camp with his company
| Saturday came, and he found some difficulty In
| getting permission to leave, but when he pleaded
| that his failure to get to Harrisburg would break
| the record of quarter of a century, attendance
| at Sunday school, the commanding officer had
| not the heart to refuse request which was
| backed by so unusual an argument
OTro SCHRoEFEL was the son of wealthy
parents in Weiselberg, Wurtemberg. They gave
| him good education and he bid fair to make
reputation an architect, but the old Adam
| was too much for him, and he ran away ten
| years ago and came to this country, Since
| then he has been living on husks. Three months
| ago he was stabbed nearly to death by a negro
| near Camden, and policeman took him to the
| hospital There he was cared for, his life saved
| and by the chance reading of an old torn news
| paper he learned that he was the rightful heir
| to fortune, the income of which will amount
! to $4,000 year.
AN important railway enterprise is announced
in Turkey, a syndicate of British financiers hav-
| ing received from the government the right to
construct grand trunk line to traverse the CEN
| alf,1n of Asia and
| tinople with Bagdad, covering distance of $50
miles 1t is said that for years past this under
| taking has been the goal of rival spectators.
| English, French German and American com
| panies have all sought to obtain the franchise.
| The line to Ada Bazaar from Ismid is to be com
menced forthwith and finished in two years.
| In four years the line is to be opened to Angora,
and eight years afterward to Bagdad. 1t is
estimated to cost some 9o,000,0O0
| The case of Joseph Garrison, of Idaho, illus
trates how a capital of patriotism can be made
| to yield lucrative returns under the pension
| system. From the statement of it, which ap-
pears in the HALEY Qdaho) Times, it seems that
he was struck by stone thrown from a roof
| as the American troops were entering the City
| of Mexico. He served afterwards in the civil
| war as Lieutenant in the Second California
Cavalry. He filed claim for total disability
| from the wound received in Mexico. but waived
it and accepted an allowance on which be has
| thus far drawn total of $1,000 His civil war
pensions and arrearages will reach $50 900 more
| Besides this the soldiers of the Mexican war re-
| ceived warrants for 100 acres of land and Gar
rison was entitled to homestead another 1850
acres free.
KEEPER MAEsT, of the Erie county almshouse
says that in his experience one of the peculiar
freaks of insanity is the seeming reversal of
natural tendencies. For instance" he says,
1--WE have in the male wards fine collections of
potted plants and climbing vines, which grow
| so luxuriantly that they curtain the windows
| The men tend these carefully pluck away the
| dead leaves stir up the dirt in the pots, prune
| the vines keep them carefully watered. and in
divers other ways manifest the tendereSt watch
fulness Not so with the women. Every attempt
| to introduce plants and vines as a feature Of the
| female wards, save in the cottage where the
midest cases are confined, has proved fiat
| failure. The women pull out the plants by the
roots, tear down the vines. and manifest other
destructive tendencies entirely at variance with
| the nature of the sex in general"
FUNNY SIGHT, the other afternoon, in Spring
! field, Mass, was a little urchin about 10 years
old, who, having sold all his papers for the day,
took out of satchel swung across his shoulder
| clead blue and white shirt, which, after wash
ing his face and hands and drying them on his
soied shirt, he proceeded to put on. Then he
| brushed his trousers and boots, brushed his hair
| with brush carried in the satchel and having
busted bis hat and replaced it upon his head he
| really did look much improved. Then he danced
a hornpipe. He next proceeded to dine on the